Issam Sartawi

Issam Sartawi (1935-10 April 1983) was a senior PLO official.

Biography
Issam Sartawi was born in 1935, and he attended college in Iraq and the United States, studying to be a cardiologist. In 1967, he returned to Palestine and joined Fatah, and he disagreed with Yasser Arafat's rejection of a peace deal with Israel proposed by President Ronald Reagan. In February 1983, he was invited to a Socialist International meeting in Albufeira, Portugal, and he was murdered in the lobby of a hotel there by the Abu Nidal Organization to hinder peace talks.